On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 09:21:15AM -0400, William Case wrote: > Are there tutorials, programs or git techniques that assist me in doing > those kind of traces? LXR was already mentioned. Also, have a look at 'make cscope' and your $EDITORs capabilities with cscope-output. (Warning: cscope files are huge, like 1GB for me at the moment. Generating them takes time, but it pays off, I think). > By the way, my plan was to use the > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git > as my source. Is it any more difficult, or likely to be less > confusing at the start, if I download the Fedora 9 kernel source > instead? (I am using the F9 distribution.) For a start, I'd definately go for Linus'-tree. You may encounter things in distribution kernels which are uncommon in the vanilla kernel, what can be confusing. If your aim already is modification of the F9-kernel, then you could also modify this one applying learning-by-doing. All the best, Wolfram -- Dipl.-Ing. Wolfram Sang | http://www.pengutronix.de Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry
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